...ANN SILVER - Graphic Artist & Activist Human senses play a major role in taking a person to the helm of their profession and personal life equally but Ann Silver, Graphic Artist & Activist (both of which I relate to as a designer & activist myself), was born as a deaf child to a hearing family, brought around a new hope of being alive in the hearts of millions of those who once had given away hope in the world. Born in 1949 in Seattle, Ann was mainstreamed for her basic education. She beautifully describes her early education as 90% guesswork and 10 % art, which shows how optimistically she kept moving ahead despite her deafness. Ann took her education extremely seriously and enrolled in some of the world’s most prestigious universities acquiring a BA in Commercial Art from Gallaudet University and an MA in Deafness [sic] Rehabilitation from New York University in 1977. The very popular deaf art movement, established in Washington DC, was initiated by Betty G. Miller and Harry R. Williams along side Ms. Silver....
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...ASL Deaf Event: Signmark Concert This past Thursday, I attended the Signmark concert hosted by Penn In-Hand. Signmark is a deaf Finnish rap artist that considers his music as being party hip hop that takes a stand. He is the first deaf artist to ever be signed to an international record label. There was a diverse group of ages, ethnicities, and gender that attended. The event was held at the Rotunda on 40th and Walnut along the center main stage with Signmark and his speaking interpreter/performer front and center. This made everyone be able to see them spatially and it reminded me of how our desks were assigned in a very concave like structure in class. There was a huge lit screen that also incorporated visual interaction with the audience that helped one identify some of Signmark’s signing. Throughout the performance I noticed many different levels of signing from both those hard at hearing and Deaf. There was a man at the event that would talk to the guests aloud but would only respond to those who signed back at him. He served as a personal liaison for my interacting and interpreting of Signmark’s lyrics throughout the show. When Signmark performed one of his favorite songs off his recent album Breaking the Rules, one motion that stood out was a much choreographed movement he would do to sign “winning/victory”. He motioned his dominant hand in a twist like positioning as if he was spinning his wrist in the air. Another sign that caught my attention was the signing “maniac”...
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...Comparison of Deaf Culture and Hearing Culture in the USA | |(Using the Hofstede Cultural Comparison Assignment as a guide) | |Where Deaf Culture Would Score If Included in the Geert Hofstede™ Cultural Dimensions | | | |Nathaneil Godfrey | | | PDI Power Distance Indicator Power distance This dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. It has to do with the fact that a society’s inequality is endorsed by the followers as much as by the leaders. http://geert-hofstede.com/ Deaf culture I think Deaf culture would...
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...him live with an artist of my choosing. Beethoven has a lot of qualities that make up his electrifying persona. He is often described as a self-absorbed angry individual always trying to better his work. In his lifetime he has faced many difficulties. One of his major difficulties was his rapid loss of hearing. Right now he is practically deaf. After taking these qualities into consideration we have decided to incorporate two different...
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...born in Brooklyn, New York on September 27 1928 to Deaf parents. Due to his father’s interest and involvement in the theater as an amateur actor and manager, Bragg became interested with theater at an early age. After enrolling in New York School for the Deaf, Bragg began to receive his first form of formal training from his mentor Robert F. Panara, who greatly encouraged his interest in the arts. After graduating in 1947, Bragg enrolled in Gallaudet College, where he played lead roles in theater dramas such as The Miser, The Bourgeois Gentleman, and Tartuffe for Deaf and hearing audiences, and for which he received many honors for his performances. During his years at Gallaudet, Bragg also pursued a verity artistic skills and went on to win the Teegarden...
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...Tone-Deaf Advertisement Creates Controversy On April 4, 2017 Pepsi released a 2 minute and 40 second video advertisement with the goal of projecting a global message of unity, peace, and understanding (Schultz). The name of the video is “Jump In,” but most refer to it as “Pepsi’s Kendall Jenner ad,” because it features the reality TV show star and model, Kendall Jenner. The creators of the advertisement come from Creators League Studio, a part of Pepsi’s content creation, which includes creative director Pete Kasko, director Michael Bernard, and film production by Picture Farm. The video features a variety of artists— photographers, musicians, and dancers— joining a protest where no...
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...simple, nor it is easy. Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing are unfortunate to have quality communication with others. There is a barrier-dividing people who are deaf from hearing people. Just like hearing people, the deaf like to talk with others; Conversations can be difficult for them, especially if they are trying to communicate with individuals who are not familiar with the Deaf community or sigh language. Lack of communication inhibits the interaction between people, so in order to overcome this barrier, people who are deaf key in on socialization. Experiencing what deaf people have to go through every single day in their lives was not easy to practice. Wearing earplugs for eight hours was a new experience that I learned a lot from. Having the ear plug in my ear canal created a conductive hearing loss and it could be either congenital or acquired causes. These causes can damage the shape of the pinna. The way I started interacting with people around me was not the same, as well the way they acted towards me. A lot of them were surprised that I was using my arms to point at things, and also wondering why I am not responding when they are saying, “ How am I doing today”. Nodding my head was not the answer they were expecting form me. Communicating with others was not easy at all, and it took a lot of hard work to tell people who are not familiar with the deaf community what I’m trying to say...
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...SILA 306 ASL 2 What is Deafhood as respecting in the deaf culture? Deafhood is a term that loosely means a Deaf person finding and understanding their Deaf culture. This is not a static term and it usually refers to a process by which a Deaf person must go through in order to discover themselves and their roles in the Deaf community. Deafhood is a word that was coined by the author of Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood, by Paddy Ladd. With regards to deafness, the people of the past felt lost or upset with being deaf. The families of the deaf would force their children to go to a hearing school and assimilate with their culture. Schools would have to put labels on the children’s clothing to differentiate them. I think that these measures would make a child uncomfortable with his deafness. There were not many schools that a child can have access to so it would be understandable that the child will feel frustrated with himself about his situation. Ladd’s book asserts that deafness is a positive thing and that one should embrace their deafness. On a similar note, the deaf should not consider their inability to hear as a disease or handicap that needs to be cured. Deafhood is the understanding of how remarkable it is to be Deaf and be okay with that. These days with the internet and technology, it is easy for a child and his family to find a community near them. It is a lot easier to have a deaf person reach Deafhood, much like a normal child would reach...
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...The Advent of Romanticism The Romantic era (1770-1870) was the term used to define the rebellion against the political and social devastation that followed the French Revolution. The Romantic era was the time when artists revolted against the classical values of balance, control, order, and proportionality promoted by neoclassical artists (Sayre 878). This revolt against the formalism of the Classical age produced a flood of emotional lyric, music, art, and poetry that peaked in works such as Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770-1827) The Ninth Symphony (1824). The romantic characteristic of emotions, individualism, and imagination can be found in The Ninth. Francisco de Goya’s (1746-1828) Saturn Devouring One of his Children (1820-1823) posses the horrifically natural or true to life, as well as the emotional characteristics he so genially portrayed. On the softer side of the romantic scale, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s (1792-1822) Indian Girl’s Song (1819) beautifully portrayed the natural and emotional characteristics of Romanticism. There are also references to the supernatural, as well as the exotic, in this work, which most certainly leaves his readers yearning for more. Artists approached the world with an outpouring of feeling and emotional passion that came to be called Romanticism. The key characteristics of Romanticism are emotion, the exotic, nature, imagination, individualism, and the supernatural. Romanticism was an overt reaction against the Enlightenment, which was...
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... Deaf Employment in the Professional Sector Profound hearing loss affects millions of people in the United States today. According to the Gualledette Research Institute there are currently over a million people between the ages of 6 and 65 who are Deaf (Harrington 1). While several state and federally funded programs have been implemented to support early and post-secondary education for the Deaf, evidence points to a significant lack of job placement assistance for Deaf young adults transitioning from college to independent living. Deaf graduates often return home to live with family due to an inability to obtain employment reflective of their academic achievements. Currently in America the most common type of employment held by Deaf individuals is limited primarily to the service and manufacturing industries. The objective of this research is to investigate the professional sector of employment in the United States to uncover the driving mechanisms behind the non-presence of the Deaf Community, specifically those with post-secondary education, and to examine what steps are being taken to resolve this apparent disparity. In the hearing world, graduating from college is the beginning of an exciting chapter of a young adult’s life as it represents the transition from higher education into the world of professional employment. It is the time one gets to put into practice the skills they have honed through years of preparation in the educational system. For people who are...
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...stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.” This is relevant in our society because we are taught that having money is equivalent to having power; therefore, people crush the innocent in order to obtain what they perceive to be power. In Flannery O'Connor's The Life You Save May Be Your Own she demonstrates how money has driven a man to take advantage of a disabled girl and her poor mother. The desire for money is the motif that through steps brings to light the purity of one’s character. The underlying goal to con and steal someone’s hard earned money begins by earning his/her trust. Mr. Shiftlet’s eagerness for money has caused him to become a greedy, heartless con man who moves from town to town scamming innocent families. One family that he targets is a poor mother and her deaf daughter. In his aspiration for money Mr. Shiftlet has been...
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...Romanticism Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes[A] (/ˈɡɔɪə/; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xoˈse ðe ˈɣoʝa i luˈθjentes]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was born to a modest family in 1746 in the village of Fuendetodos in Aragon. He studied painting from age 14 under José Luzán y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773; the couple's life together was characterised by an almost constant series of pregnancies and miscarriages. He became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and the early portion of his career is marked by portraits commissioned by the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, as well as the Rococo style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace. Goya was a guarded man and although letters and writings survive, we know comparatively little about his thoughts. He suffered a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him completely deaf. After 1793 his work became progressively darker and pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and...
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...The Legend of the Mountain Man, an element film entirely quiet yet especially a talking picture, aside from that the dialect is ASL, or American Sign Language. It is made by ASL Films, who have set themselves up to deliver highlight movies to proficient principles for the deaf culture. Their movies are unadulterated ASL, without subtitles or voice over, thus for the hearing watcher offer an absolutely quiet affair and in addition a window onto an entirely chatty world. The Legend of the Mountain Man, set in pleasant Montana, includes a typical family of five that display typical dysfunctions within their family. The father, who has been inconsistent with his folks for a long time, chooses to send his three youngsters to his folks' farm for...
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...project. They were shown smiling when the strangers would describe their best features to the artist and they were shown crying happy tears when they saw the end product of the sketch comparisons. Seeing their end reaction emotionally touched me the most and I even had to get up at one point to grab a box of tissues because I began crying. The strong pathos brought out my emotions and reminded me how I once related to the issue of not realizing my beauty when I was thirteen years old. Back then, I watched a similar video on how we’re all beautiful and it changed my perspective after watching it. I can understand how people could be touched by this ad and it even reminds me a little bit of the ASPCA commercials that get me emotional. There is a definitely a decent amount of pathos in this ad and it does its job for...
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...Throughout time, it is shown that many artists have been inspired by the stories that are carried in the Bible. Some of those artists are like Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Lang, and Alejandro González Iñárritu. These artists are some of the few that used allusions towards the stories of the Bible. An allusion is when an expression brings something to the mind without mentioning it directly. In some of the works of those artists carry the allusion to The Tower of Babel. In Genesis 11, the story of The Tower of Babel is told. In this story the descendants of Noah are brought together to build a tower that reaches the Heavens. The reason they want to build this tower is to have power like God. So while they built the tower, God watched them and began to realize that they can someday be powerful. With that in mind, he went down with the angels to confuse the people in Shinar and separated them all over the world with different languages so they could not understand one another. That would stop them from trying to regain the possibility of having the power like God. It was called Babel because of that reason and this is how our world has come out to have many different languages. Allusions are found in many forms of art. One of the arts that hold allusions to a biblical story is literature. Ray Bradbury published one of his most famous works in 1953, Fahrenheit 451. This novel is science fiction and holds the story of a fireman named Montag in a future like city. His job is...
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